Definitions
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- adjective established as if settled into a groove or rut
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Examples
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We walked our bikes around the fence, found the well-grooved trail on the other side, and set to pedaling again.
Check Craig Lancaster 2011
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After a week in which his weight has been much discussed Patel can now luxuriate in a match-turning moment of athleticism, flopping to his knees with well-grooved expertise as Akmal's drive died on him.
Alastair Cook leads way with another ton as England beat Pakistan 2012
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How, then, to pull out of those well-grooved psychological ruts?
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How, then, to pull out of those well-grooved psychological ruts?
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They do not see what is not obvious, are unable to do the unexpected, are incapable of adjusting their well-grooved lives to other and strange grooves.
THE UNEXPECTED 2010
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Your true nature will take care of everything, too often leaving yourself alone means leaving yourself to your habitual and well-grooved ways of eating.
Women Food and God Geneen Roth 2010
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Your true nature will take care of everything, too often leaving yourself alone means leaving yourself to your habitual and well-grooved ways of eating.
Women Food and God Geneen Roth 2010
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Hide his pipe or his favorite writing-table candle; then watch him go crazy in quick, well-grooved increments: the search, the distracted circular pacing in that odd half-capsized gait of his, and finally the screaming, cursing war dance.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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Hide his pipe or his favorite writing-table candle; then watch him go crazy in quick, well-grooved increments: the search, the distracted circular pacing in that odd half-capsized gait of his, and finally the screaming, cursing war dance.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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Something wistful, even youthful touched the woman's well-grooved face.
Double Dealer: Crime Scene Investigation Max Allan Collins 2002
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